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Supermarket boss hits back: 'We are not profiteering'

Big retailers are not making hay while the lockdown sun shines, Foodstuffs CEO says.

Maria Slade Mon, 30 Mar 2020

The idea that supermarkets are profiteering out of the Covid-19 shutdown “is not fact-based,” Foodstuffs North Island CEO Chris Quin says.

The boss of over 300 Pak’nSave, New World and Four Square stores said there was little point though in trying to argue with people.

“Their

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